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A comment on Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academic research (2016).

Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by TekMol on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:01PM (#16140223)
One thing I don't understand about human intelligence:

Why do instances like this one publish their articles on Medium? As a reader, I am annoyed that Medium puts two dick bars on the page so it is hard to read. As a writer, I would not want to have my content controlled by a third party. And not have all these links to the third party on my content. What counterweights this? Are there any benefits of giving your content to Medium?

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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by juanmirocks on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:03PM (#16140231)
Eh... extremely much larger exposure? Those playing the game of posting on Medium and Linkedin are gaining the game of reachability. That's the point of publishing out content.
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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by TekMol on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:05PM (#16140239)
What is that large exposure? How does the article reach more readers because it is on Medium?
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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by juanmirocks on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:13PM (#16140271)
Because:

* It is linked (vs. a post in a personal blog post which would only be indexed by search engines) * There is a large community of users on Medium, and posts are easy to share. * Medium highlights popular posts.

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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by TekMol on Saturday January 13, 2018 @12:19PM (#16140291) 

    It is linked
Linked from where?

    Posts are easy to share
How can sharing be easier then ' read this: https://blog.ai-academy.com/3a79cac4c9c2 '?

    Medium highlights popular posts
But is it worth all the downsides? The post is on the HN frontpage, yet it only has 51 likes on Medium. How much additional readers does such a post get from Mediums free marketing?
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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by fishmeat on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:41PM (#16140933)
>As a reader, I am annoyed that Medium puts two dick bars on the page so it is hard to read.

This, I remember blocking those bars a month ago with uBlockOrigin. It was very, very annoying the first time around now that you reminded me.

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Re:Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academ... by wepple on Saturday January 13, 2018 @03:21PM (#16141153)
The benefits are that Medium is now more of a social network than a writing platform: you can follow people and give them digital applause (claps) if they’re doing some fine thought leadering.

The downside, as you’ve pointed out, is that content is becoming watered down and the UX of Medium is going downhill.

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